Example sentences of "[that] we [vb mod] understand " in BNC.
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| 1 | We look to price theory to elucidate the nature of the mutual influence exercised by decisions so that we may understand how changes in these decisions , or in the data which underlie them , systematically set in motion further alterations elsewhere in the market . |
| 2 | Marx and Engels argues that we must understand ideas as products of people engaged in this natural process and see the production of ideas as an aspect of the general enterprise of making a living from nature . |
| 3 | It is in this context that we must understand the reception of syncopated dance music in the early 1900s , of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s , and of punk in the late 1970s , as not only new but unnatural . |
| 4 | This would certainly have been within the power of an omnipotent being , but if he had started it off in such an incomprehensible way , why did he choose to let it evolve according to laws that we could understand ? |
| 5 | This final scene of the novel leaves the reader free to believe , if he so wishes , that Pip and Estella will eventually marry , but it seems clear that CD 's intention was that we should understand that Pip 's renewed hopes were not to be fulfilled . |
| 6 | We 're all called to understand ourselves , and to do this it 's necessary that we should understand one another , and this is only possible after a long while of living together . |
| 7 | Does this mean that we will understand schizophrenia if we know that it often occurs in people when a certain ion channel or a certain enzyme is damaged ? |
| 8 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 9 | The first is to provide simple descriptions of complex data so that we can understand what is going on in our experiments . |
| 10 | Rommetveit does not believe that we can understand meaning by paring an utterance down to its ‘ core meaning ’ and then following up variations on it , as the formal linguists are attempting to do . |
| 11 | It is true that personal ownership of some kinds of wealth is declining — but our focus is on assets under the control of individuals so that we can understand the effects of wealth on class position . |
| 12 | But in that case the expression " I was alone " would have been banal : it is only after we have felt the isolation of the speaker in all its particularity , and have seen the last vestige of human life disappear over the horizon , that we can understand the force of the simple statement . |
| 13 | It is in this social-theoretical context that we can understand Bourdieu 's effectively poststructural challenge to Lévi-Strauss 's and Althusser 's eminently modernist conceptions of scientific objectivity and autonomous structures . |
| 14 | It is by studying the pattern of naming times across such different situations that we can understand where changes in size and orientation affect recognition . |
| 15 | B : Well , the milkman has come It is only on the basis of assuming the relevance of B's response that we can understand it as providing a partial answer to A's question . |
| 16 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |